Every Meal Matters: Live USTREAM Broadcast on October 19

Learn how to get more Fair Trade in your diet with Ashley Koff RD and Chef Malika Ameen

Fair Trade USA is hitting the kitchenlive on USTREAMwith tips on how to make every meal matter by including a variety of Fair Trade Certified ingredients in every dish. Celebrity dietician Ashley Koff RD and renowned chef Malika Ameen share savory and decadent Fair Trade culinary creations that fulfill the body and soul. The segment will be hosted by Mary Jo Cook of Fair Trade USA, and will feature cooking demonstrations for three delicious recipes that are full of Fair Trade Certified Ingredients. The real-time USTREAM format allows viewers to participate in the discussion by submitting questions and comments for Mary Jo, Ashley or Malika via Twitter and Facebook.

Malika Ameen

Malika Ameen is passionate about beautiful, delicious food. Obsessed with using only the finest ingredients, Ameen has joined up with Fair Trade USA to provide a desert recipe using Fair Trade Certified™ ingredients that exemplify her mastery of using spices to enhance her unique flavor combinations.

Ameen was raised in a food-focused home where family dinners were prepared from scratch each day. These family dinners proved to be the beginning of a career in the culinary arts. From attending New York's Institute of Culinary Education and the French Culinary Institute, to working with an array of renowned pastry chefs, Ameen has had a stellar background of culinary training.

In 2007, she opened her restaurant, Aigre Doux in Chicago and in 2009 she began creating private order pastries based on her popular desserts. In 2010, she became a contestant on Top Chef: Just Desserts and started her made to order Couture Cookies, byMdesserts.

"I love Fair Trade products because they have such pure flavors that enhance any and every dish I prepare. To me, they simultaneously represent delicious eating and conscious living."

Ashley Koff, RD

With a commitment to helping consumers easily identify products that contribute to a healthy lifestyle, Ashley Koff RD has joined Fair Trade USA for Fair Trade Month to share a recipe that is delicious, nutritious and fair. Koff, with a curiosity and a desire to get the whole story on food ingredients we consume, routinely “goes to the source” around the world and throughout the U.S. to explore food production and cultural influences in our food system.

Author of Mom Energy: A Simple Plan to Live Fully Charged (September, 2011), Ashley Koff R.D. maintains a private practice, regularly lectures, and works to educate healthcare professionals and the media in an effort to improve the quality of food choices for consumers as well as on the sets of popular shows at networks like: ABC, CBS, HBO, FX and FOX. Koff regularly appears as a health and nutrition expert on national media outlets, including Dr. Oz, CBS’s The Early Show, Good Morning America Health, The Doctors, CNN and E! and was most recently the featured dietitian on Lifetime’s “Love Handles” and CW’s “Shedding for the Wedding”.

"We are a global community. We really can't look at products as just being healthy for us, we need to look at what's healthy for the world." – Ashley Koff RD

Mary Jo Cook

Mary Jo Cook joined Fair Trade USA in 2009 as the Vice President of Business Development and Marketing and has since had the opportunity seen the impact of Fair Trade first hand in Haiti, Costa Rica and Colombia. Before joining Fair Trade USA, she was Vice President of Innovation at The Clorox Company where she created and led the company's first cross-functional innovation group which developed an launched products like Clorox Bleach Pen and GreenWorks from Clorox.

She also established the position of Vice President of Sustainability to help Clorox use an environmental sustainability lens to both decrease its footprint and cost, as well as become a catalyst for growth. In 2006, BusinessWeek recognized her as one of the “Top 25 Innovation Champions.” In addition to her business career, Mary Jo contributes her time to numerous local nonprofit organizations, including LeaderSpring, which provides leadership development and management training to Executive Directors.